1918 in the United States

Events from the year 1918 in the United States.

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See also:	History of the United States (1918–1945) Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) List of years in the United States

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey)
• Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana)
• Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark (D-Missouri)
• Congress: 65th

Events

January–March

• January – The World Tomorrow pacifist magazine begins publication.
• January 8 – President Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
• February 21 – The last Carolina parakeet (the last breed of parrot native to the eastern U.S.), a male named "Incas", dies at Cincinnati Zoo.
• March – The Liberator socialist magazine begins publication.
• March 4 – A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
• March 19 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).

April–June

• April 21 – The 6.7 M_w  San Jacinto earthquake shakes southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Severe), causing $200,000 in damage, one death, and several injuries.
• May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
• May 15 – The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
• May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.
• May 22 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the fifth year in a row by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on the same date.
• May 23 – First victims of the "axeman of New Orleans" in a 17-month series of brutal murders mainly directed at Italian American shopkeepers and their families; the serial killer is never identified.
• June 8 – The total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 crosses the United States from Washington State to Florida.
• June 22
  • Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.
  • Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

July–September

1918 flu pandemic

• July 9 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171. It is considered the worst rail accident in U.S. history.
• August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States.
• August 13 – Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
• August 27 – Border War; Battle of Ambos Nogales – U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil.
• September 11 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
• September 12–15 – World War I: Battle of Saint-Mihiel fought in France: The first and only offensive launched solely by the American Expeditionary Forces under John J. Pershing overcomes German forces in the Saint-Mihiel salient.

October–December

• October 4 – The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
• October 8 – World War I: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
• October 11 – The 7.1 M_w  San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
• October 12 – 1918 Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
• October 25 – The SS Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
• November 1 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
• November 11 – World War I ends.
• December 4 – President of the U.S. Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
• December 19 – Ripley's Believe It or Not! first appears as a cartoon under the title Champs and Chumps in The New York Globe.

Undated

• The Native American Church is formally founded.
• The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to oppose Prohibition in the U.S.
• George Drumm's concert march "Hail, America" is first performed in New York City.

Ongoing

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• World War I, U.S. involvement (1917–1918)
• First Red Scare (1917–1920)

Births

January

Gertrude B. Elion

John Forsythe

• January 1 – Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 2012)
• January 9 – Alma Ziegler, professional baseball player (d. 2005)
• January 15 – Ira B. Harkey Jr., newspaper editor (d. 2006)
• January 16 – Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
• January 17 – George M. Leader, politician (d. 2013)
• January 19
  • Peter Hobbs, actor (d. 2011)
  • John H. Johnson, African-American publisher, founder of Ebony (d. 2005)
• January 20 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw, food scientist (d. 2013)
• January 21 – Richard Winters, World War II soldier (d. 2011)
• January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999)
• January 24 – Oral Roberts, neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009)
• January 25 – Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
• January 26
  • Philip José Farmer, writer (d. 2009)
  • Vito Scotti, actor (d. 1996)
• January 27 – Elmore James, musician (d. 1963)
• January 29 – John Forsythe, actor (Dynasty) (d. 2010)
• January 31 – Millie Dunn Veasey, African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d. 2018)

February

Joey Bishop

Julian Schwinger

Fay McKenzie

• February 3
  • Millie Bailey, World War II veteran and civil servant (d. 2022)
  • Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack" (d. 2007)
  • Martin Greenberg, American poet and translator (d. 2021)
  • Helen Stephens, American athlete (d. 1994)
• February 8
  • Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, novelty singer (Pencil Neck Geek) (d. 2003)
  • Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (d. 2001)
• February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• February 15
  • Allan Arbus, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2013)
  • William T. Young, American businessman (d. 2004)
• February 16 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 2013)
• February 17 – William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
• February 19 – Fay McKenzie, American silent film actress (d. 2019)
• February 21 – Robert E. Thacker, American aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
• February 22
  • Charlie Finley, American businessman (d. 1996)
  • Don Pardo, American television announcer (Saturday Night Live) (d. 2014)
  • Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940)
• February 25
  • Barney Ewell, athlete (d. 1996)
  • Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d. 1995)
• February 26
  • Otis R. Bowen, politician (d. 2013)
  • Theodore Sturgeon, writer (d. 1985)

March

Howard Cosell

Pearl Bailey

• March 1 – James N. Morgan, economist (d. 2018)
• March 3 – Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2007)
• March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American female tennis player (d. 2012)
• March 5 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• March 8 – Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist (d. 2003)
• March 9
  • George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
  • Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
• March 11 – Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
• March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
• March 13 – Eddie Pellagrini, American baseball player, coach (d. 2006)
• March 15 – Richard Ellmann, American literary biographer (d. 1987)
• March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d. 1998)
• March 17 – Ross Bass, American politician (d. 1993)
• March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
• March 20 – Jack Barry, American television game show host, producer (d. 1984)
• March 23
  • Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)
  • Stick McGhee, American jump blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1961)
• March 25 – Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
• March 26 – Lloyd McCuiston, American politician
• March 28 – Alberto Valdés, American artist (d. 1998)
• March 29
  • Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d. 1990)
  • Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
  • Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992)

April

Betty Ford

William Holden

• April 1 – Milt Earnhart, American politician (d. 2020)
• April 4 – Joseph Ashbrook, American astronomer (d. 1980)
• April 7 – Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (d. 2017)
• April 8
  • Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
  • Charles P. Roland, American historian
• April 14 – Mary Healy, American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015)
• April 15
  • Louis O. Coxe, writer (d. 1993)
  • Edmund Jones, politician (d. 2019)
• April 17
  • William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
  • Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
• April 18 – Clifton Hillegass, author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
• April 20 – Edward L. Beach Jr., naval captain and author (d. 2002)
• April 22
  • Mickey Vernon, baseball player (d. 2008)
  • William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
• April 24 – Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer (d. 2008)
• April 27 – John Rice, baseball umpire (d. 2011)
• April 28
  • Mildred Persinger, feminist (d. 2018)
  • Rodger Young, United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d. 1943)
• April 29 – George Allen, American football coach (d. 1990)

May

Mike Wallace

Richard Feynman

Eddy Arnold

• May 1 – Jack Paar, American television show host (The Tonight Show) (d. 2004)
• May 3 – Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (d. 2017)
• May 9
  • Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d. 1998)
  • Orville Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
  • Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
• May 10
  • T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d. 2018)
  • Jane Mayhall, American poet and novelist (d. 2009)
  • George Welch, U.S. soldier and pilot (d. 1954)
• May 11
  • Richard Feynman, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 (d. 1988)
  • Phil Rasmussen, pilot (d. 2005)
• May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
• May 15 – Eddy Arnold, country singer (d. 2008)
• May 17 – A. C. Lyles, film producer (d. 2013)
• May 18
  • Claudia Bryar, actress (d. 2011)
  • Joe Krush, illustrator (d. 2022)
• May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• May 21 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott, educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013)
• May 23
  • Frank Mancuso, major league baseball player, politician (d. 2007)
  • Naomi Replansky, poet (d. 2023)

June

Robert Preston

Jerome Karle

• June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer, storyteller (d. 2011)
• June 4 – Johnny Klein, drummer (d. 1997)
• June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d. 2009)
• June 8
  • Robert Preston, American actor (The Music Man) (d. 1987)
• 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
• 1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
• June 9 – John Hospers, American philosopher (d. 2011)
• June 10 – Wood Moy, American actor (d. 2017)
• June 12 – Jerry A. Moore Jr., American politician (d. 2017)
• June 18
  • Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
  • Lillian Ross, American journalist on The New Yorker (d. 2017)
  • Elisabeth Waldo, American violinist, composer
• June 21
  • Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer, author and artist (d. 2020)
  • Robert V. Roosa, American economist and banker (d. 1993)
  • Josephine Webb, engineer (d. 2017)
• June 25 – Sid Tepper, songwriter (d. 2015)
• June 26 – Raleigh Rhodes, combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
• June 27 – Adolph Kiefer, Olympic champion swimmer (d. 2017)
• June 28 – Marshall Brown, professional basketball player (d. 2008)
• June 29
  • Gene La Rocque, U.S. admiral (d. 2016)
  • Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d. 2019)

July

Craig Stevens

Pee Wee Reese

Paul D. Boyer

Hank Jones

• July 1 – Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d. 2008)
• July 3
  • Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
  • Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer (d. 2020)
  • Ben Thompson, American architect and designer (d. 2002)
• July 4
  • Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d. 2004)
  • Eppie Lederer, American journalist and radio host (d. 2002)
  • Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
  • Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, creator of Dear Abby (d. 2013)
• July 5 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
• July 6
  • J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d. 2017)
  • Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
• July 7 – Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
• July 8
  • Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d. 2017)
  • Bela E. Kennedy, American politician (d. 2008)
  • Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
  • Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
• July 10
  • Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d. 2018)
  • Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
• July 12
  • Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d. 2022)
  • Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
  • Vivian Mason, actress (d. 2009)
  • Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
• July 14
  • Jay Wright Forrester, computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
  • Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• July 16 – Leonard T. Schroeder, colonel (d. 2009)
• July 17 – Chandler Robbins, ornithologist (d. 2017)
• July 18
  • James Duesenberry, economist (d. 2009)
  • Warren Hair, professional basketball player (d. 2006)
• July 20
  • Edward S. Little, diplomat (d. 2004)
  • Cindy Walker, songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
• July 22 – Stanley Lebergott, government economist (d. 2009)
• July 23
  • Carl T. Langford, politician (d. 2011)
  • Pee Wee Reese, baseball player (d. 1999)
• July 24 – Irving London, hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018)
• July 25 – Jane Frank, artist (d. 1986)
• July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress (d. 2015)
• July 27 – Leonard Rose, cellist (d. 1984)
• July 29 – Edwin O'Connor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
• July 30
  • John L. Cason, actor (d. 1961)
  • Jimmy Robinson, actor (d. 1967)
• July 31
  • Paul D. Boyer, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
  • Hank Jones, pianist (d. 2010)

August

Leonard Bernstein

Katherine Johnson

• August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
• August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015)
• August 9 – Robert Aldrich, American writer and filmmaker (d. 1983)
• August 12 – Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015)
• August 13 – Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020)
• August 19 – Oliver Brown, African-American plaintiff (d. 1961)
• August 20 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
• August 21 – Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010 in Israel)
• August 22 – Martin Pope, American physical chemist
• August 23 – Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
• August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
• August 26
  • Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson (d. 2020)
  • Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)
• August 27 – Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017)
• August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• August 31
  • Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009)
  • Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
  • Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971)

September

Paul Harvey

• September 1 – James D. Martin, American politician (d. 2017)
• September 3 – Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d. 2010)
• September 4
  • Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
  • Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
• September 5 - Fred McCarthy, cartoonist (d. 2009)
• September 6 – Hugh Gillis, American politician (d. 2013)
• September 13
  • Ray Charles, American musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
  • Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
• September 15 – Nipsey Russell, African-American comedian (d. 2005)
• September 19 – Joseph Zeller, American politician (d. 2018)
• September 21 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist, advocate (d. 2007)
• September 26
  • Harry Yee, bartender (d. 2022)
  • John Zacherle, television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d. 2016)
• September 28 – Arnold Stang, comic actor (d. 2009)

October

Rita Hayworth

• October 4 – Adrian Kantrowitz, American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008)
• October 9 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
• October 13 – Robert Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
• October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
• October 18 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in Emergency! (d. 1999)
• October 19 – Robert S. Strauss, American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014)
• October 22 – Fred Caligiuri, American baseball player (d. 2018)
• October 23
  • Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
  • Paul Rudolph, American architect (d. 1997)
• October 25 – Milton Selzer, American actor (d. 2006)
• October 27 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
• October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d. 2020)
• October 31 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)

November

Art Carney

Billy Graham

Spiro Agnew

• November 3
  • Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
  • Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher (d. 2022)
  • Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
  • Russell B. Long, United States Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
  • Dean Riesner, American film, television screenwriter (d. 2002)
• November 4
  • Art Carney, American actor, best known for his role in The Honeymooners (d. 2003)
  • Cameron Mitchell, American actor, best known for his role in The High Chaparral (d. 1994)
• November 7
  • Fred Cusick, American ice hockey broadcaster (d. 2009)
  • Billy Graham, evangelist (d. 2018)
• November 8 – Bob Schiller, American screenwriter (d. 2017)
• November 9
  • Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 (d. 1996)
  • Thomas Ferebee, United States Air Force colonel (d. 2000)
• November 10 – John Henry Moss, American baseball executive, politician (d. 2009)
• November 11 – Louise Tobin, American singer (d. 2022)
• November 21 – Dorothy Maguire, American professional baseball player (d. 1981)
• November 28 – Jack H. Harris, American film producer, distributor and actor (d. 2017)
• November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, children's fiction writer (d. 2007)
• November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)

December

Jeff Chandler

• December 6 – Nick Drahos, American football player (d. 2018)
• December 10 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
• December 11 – John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d. 2018)
• December 12 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
• December 14 – Jack Cole, American cartoonist (d. 1958)
• December 15 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
• December 17 – Dusty Anderson, American actress and model (d. 2007)
• December 18 – Hal Kanter, American comedy writer, producer and director (d. 2011)
• December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and author (d. 1990 in the United States1990)
• December 21
  • Fred Gloden, American football player (d. 2019)
  • Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
• December 24 – Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)
• December 25
  • Henry Hillman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
  • George S. Vest, American diplomat (d. 2021)
• December 26 – Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
• December 29 – Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d. 2019)
• December 31
  • Al Lakeman, Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)
  • Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d. 2018)

Undated

• Nat Jaffe, swing jazz pianist (d. 1945)
• Sol Malkoff, calligrapher and designer (d. 2001)

Deaths

Further information: Category:Deaths from Spanish flu

• January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (born 1827)
• February 2 – John L. Sullivan, boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858)
• February 4 – Jeannette Walworth, American journalist and novelist (born 1835)
• February 7 – Effie Hoffman Rogers, educator, editor and journalist (born 1835/37)
• February 9 – E. J. Richmond, litterateur and author (born 1825)<ref">"Obituary, Mrs. E. J. Richmond. Died in Mount Upton, New York, 9 Feb 1918". Press and Sun-Bulletin. 14 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.</ref>
• February 15 – Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer (born 1887)
• March 10 – Jim McCormick, baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland)
• March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States (born 1832)
• March 16 – Prosper P. Parker, civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born 1835 in Canada)
• March 27 – Henry Adams, historian (born 1838)
• April 14 – James E. Ware, architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born 1846)
• May 1 – Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist (born 1843)
• May 5 – Bertha Palmer, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born 1849)
• May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher (born 1841)
• May 17 – William Drew Robeson, African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born 1844)
• May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1885 in France)
• May 27 – Frederick Trump, German American businessman, paternal grandfather of Donald Trump (born 1869)
• June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born 1852)
• June 18 – Lizzie Halliday, serial killer (born c.1859)
• June 25 – Jake Beckley, baseball player (born 1867)
• June 27 – George Mary Searle, astronomer (born 1839)
• June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (born 1858)
• July 20 – Francis Lupo, U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born 1895)
• July 22 – Roy Earl Parrish, American politician (killed in action; born 1888)
• July 27 – Gustav Kobbé, music critic and author (sailing accident; born 1857)
• July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, poet (killed in action; born 1886)
• August 1 – John Riley Banister, policeman and cowboy (born 1854)
• August 10 – William Pitt Kellogg, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born 1830)
• August 12 – Anna Held, singer (born 1872 in Poland)
• August 14 – Anna Morton, Second Lady of the United States (born 1846)
• August 24 – Louis Bennett Jr., World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. 1894)
• September 12 – Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born 1838)
• September 28
  • True Boardman, silent film actor (born 1882)
  • Freddie Stowers, African American corporal (killed in action; born 1896)
• September 29 – Frank Luke, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1897)
• October 8 – James B. McCreary, 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born 1838)
• October 16 – Felix Arndt, pianist and composer (born 1889)
• October 19 – Harold Lockwood, silent film actor (born 1887)
• October 21
  • Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (born 1879)
  • Jennie O. Starkey, journalist (born ca. 1856)
• October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, silent film actress (born 1891)
• October 28 – Edward Bouchet, physicist (born 1852)
• November 4 – Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, academic and author (born 1832)
• November 19 – Joseph F. Smith, Mormon leader (born 1838)
• December – Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe basket weaver (born 1858)
• December 17 – John Green Brady, 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born 1847)
• December 26 – William Hampton Patton, entomologist (born 1853)

See also

• List of American films of 1918
• Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)

External links

• Media related to 1918 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons
• "1918". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America. Archived from the original on November 22, 2014.